and no one from lenin’s inner circle, in fact, by that time they were either pushed aside, like krupskayaack in 1932, when they were rehearsing there and balychev was rehearsing, he told him that you look like lenin, and ruben simonov, it stuck with him somewhere , when... simonov was looking for an artist to play the role of lenin, he remembered gorky’s phrase and offered this role to shchyukin, yeah, and the first. exit, it was in the akhtangov theater, a man with a gun, a man with a gun, it was, they say, it was some kind of bomb effect, when lenin came out on stage when, specially with the artist, they made a long corridor so that lenin, who walks with a long gait along the corridor of smolny, then shadrin in the role of tolchan comes out to meet him for some tea, nowhere to get boiling water, there’s no comrade who can tell him. and he takes him to the other side, they say it was some kind of, well, the effect of an exploding bomb, the appearance of lenin on stage, when they started filming this film, they invited him, but the deadline was so short that they filmed around the clock,